tcpdump Good alternative? YES NO

tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line. It allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received...

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Intercepter-NG YES NO

Intercepter-NG is a multifunctional network toolkit for various types of IT specialists. The main purpose is to recover *interesting* data from the network stream and...

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• Discontinued App unavailable on Play Store and website is flagged by modern browsers as potentially malicious.
• Warning Website blocked by modern browsers as possible trojan.

netcat Good alternative? YES NO

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable...

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• Wireshark functions on the lower levels of the OSI model and its main feature is dumping all network traffic for all ports and protocols on various OSI levels. netcat is basically a network service/client system, it serves or listens on a specified port for text-based data (like cat) Guest • May 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Nethogs Good alternative? YES NO

NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs...

Free Open Source Linux Xfce

Microsoft Message Analyzer Alternative?  YES NO

Message Analyzer enables you to capture, display, and analyze protocol messaging traffic; and to trace and assess system events and other messages from Windows...

Free Windows

Ettercap Good alternative? YES NO

Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It...

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SmartSniff Good alternative? YES NO

SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP...

Free Windows

Ethereal Good alternative? YES NO

Ethereal® is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

• Discontinued

Sysdig Good alternative? YES NO

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace +...

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Microsoft Network Monitor Alternative?  YES NO

Microsoft Network Monitor is a packet analyzer. It enables capturing, viewing, and analyzing network data and deciphering network protocols. It can be used to...

Free Windows

PacketSled Good alternative? YES NO

PacketSled is next generation network forensics and breach detection. Continuously monitor for advanced threats and policy violations missed by other defenses, then...

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CloudShark Good alternative? YES NO

A web based platform that lets you view, analyze, and share packet capture files in a browser. Works in Safari for iPad and iPhone.

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Scapy Good alternative? YES NO

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them...

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Colasoft Capsa Good alternative? YES NO

Capsa performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, protocol analysis, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosis.

Commercial Windows

Debookee Good alternative? YES NO

Debookee is the simplest & most powerful network traffic analyzer for macOS. Network Traffic Interception Debookee is able to intercept and monitor the traffic...

Commercial Mac